Lombard Club

The Lombard Club was a European banking cartel broken up by the European Commission in 2002. The Commission found that eight Austrian banks met monthly to organize widespread price fixing across Austria. It organized before Austria was a European Union member. [cite web|url=http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/02/844&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en |title=Commission fines eight Austrian banks in "Lombard Club" cartel case |accessdate=2007-06-23 |date=1/06/2002 ] [cite news | first=Sam, Ph.D | last=Vaknin | coauthors= | title=Austrian Banking Interview with Wolfgang Christl | date= | publisher= | url =http://samvak.tripod.com/pp169.html | work = | pages = | accessdate = 2007-06-23 | language = ]

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